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TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor’s Office has detained another suspect in the case of the death of Levan Kortava.
Prosecutors at the western regional office detained Iveri Gogoberidze on the basis of a court decision, according to a statement by the Prosecutor’s Office.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Every year after the Russia-Georgia war in 2008 there have been planned different events for the five days the war lasted to pay tribute to the victims.
Events were planned today in Gori, a town close to where the war took place. In the morning there
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia has answered its critics who say that the economy is in crisis, assuring them that all commitments and plans will be fulfilled and that the economy is in no danger.
Georgian Dream coalition MPs on Wednesday met with the
TBILISI, DFWatch-Georgia and Ukraine plan to increase bilateral trade turnover to one billion USD in 2013.
This was reported by Ukrainian media after a meeting between Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Olexandr Vilkul and Georgian Ambassador Mikhail Ukleba.
Vilkul said
TBILISI, DFWatch–45 inmates are on hunger strike in the women’s prison in Rustavi, demanding to bring back the recently fired director of the facility.
Later today, 80 other prisoners in a sign of solidarity refused to eat bread. They demand that Salome Janelidze
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says that the installation of razor wire close to the so-called administrative border with South Ossetia was not agreed with the Kremlin.
In May, Russian soldiers moved a de facto border line around South
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev interviewed by Georgian TV five years after the war: ‘Georgia should be interested in joining the Eurasian Union, because it is a neighbor of Russia.’
“We will never be neighbors with the US whatever happens.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Locals of Bolnisi, a town in southern Georgia, demand the resignation of the acting head of the local government, the gamgebeli, because they believe he is not fulfilling any of his duties.
People in Bolnisi, in the Kvemo Kartli region, claim that
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TBILISI, DFWatch–The Interior Ministry and the National Statistics Department, GeoStat, have published different statistics of the level of crime in the country.
The Statistics Department data says that the number of criminal cases has increased,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Three persons have been placed in pre-trial detention for two months pending trial, after a suspicious death of a prisoner.
The prisoner, Levan Kortava, died May 23 at the prison hospital after being moved there from Geguti prison, a village